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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
64-27
Record number:
64-27-8
JCB call number:
D756 B883c / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Chloroxylum and Suzygium]
Creator 1:
Georg Dionysius Ehret
Creator 1 dates:
1708-1770
Creator 1 role:
delin
Creator 2:
Edn.
Creator 2 role:
f[ecit].
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[T. Osborne and J. Shipton]
Image date:
[1756]
Image function:
plate 7; following p. 374
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
31.2 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
21.1 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
35 cm.
Page dimension width:
22 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Inscription:
l.c.: 1. Chloroxylum. 2. Suzygium
Description:
Figure 1 depicts a branch of the chloroxylum tree with details of its nut or seed. Figure 2 depicts a branch of the suzygium plant with details of its fruit or seed.
Source creator:
Browne, Patrick, 1720?-1790
Source Title:
The civil and natural history of Jamaica. ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for the author; and sold by T. Osborne, and J. Shipton, in Gray's-Inn.
Source date:
MDCCLVI [1756]
notes:
The chloroxylum tree was also known as the cogwood or cog-wood tree, because its extrememly hard wood was so useful for the cogs of sugar mills. Suzygium or Syzygium is a genus of flowering plants of the myrtle family. Browne notes that he saw only one example of this plant, and it bore dark berries.Image title from pp. 187 and 240 of text.In the plates the letter (a) indicates the empalement or cup; (b) the flower; (c) the filaments with their antherae; (d) the style and stigma; and (e), (f), and (g) the germen, fruit and seeds.Browne was an Irish medical doctor who settled in Jamaica in 1746. There he collected 1200 species of plants, 400 more than Sloane. He retired to Ireland in 1771.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1963; former collections of William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwiliam; Charles William de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam; Mary, Marchioness of Rockingham.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--Jamaica
Subject headings:
Botany--Jamaica

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